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Sand Wasp

Posted by August 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am

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Did not know what type of Wasp this was and found your site, Excellent! Now I know it is a Sand wasp! Live in the High Desert in California and have never seen these before. it was buzzing along with a ton of honey bees in my garden. thanks again for great site!
B.Simes

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Hi B.,
This is surely a sand wasp in the subfamily Bembicinae, but the last time we tried identifying one to the genus level, Eric Eaton corrected us. Once again, we believe this to be in the genus Bembix, but we might be wrong. At any rate, your photo is quite nice and the specimen is beautiful.

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